If youíve ever done a respring, or a reboot, then you might be familiar with the way that the Apple logo appears until your lock screen finally appears. Itís simply that Ė a boring, non-animated, Apple logo.

A new jailbreak tweak called Beacon by iOS developer Evan Swick enables the animated Apple boot animation that appears on the display the first time you turn on your iOS device after a fresh restore. This way, youíll see this awesome animated Apple logo right before you see your lock screen, rather than a dull, non-animated Apple logo.

The animated Apple logo appears every time you reboot your device, or respring it. The tweak comes with a preferences pane in the Settings application, where you can choose the transition style from the basic Apple logo to the animated one:

The transitions you have to choose from include:

Flip from left

Flip from right

Curl up

Curl down

Dissolve

Flip from top

Flip from bottom

Beacon is a very simple, and subtle change for iOS, but at the same time, itís a very pleasing one. This is one of those simple jailbreak tweaks that makes the iOS experience just that much better. Itís odd how Apple hasnít already made features like this stock with iOS.

Beacon works on any device, whether it's an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. The device just needs to be running iOS 5 or later.

Nice idea! Yuh is it using the Logo Flare images in the SpringBoard app?

Be good if somehow it could be also integrated into WB.

I thought animated boot logos were gone!

Good work!

Thanks!

And haha, I didn't even know those Logo Flare images existed! Wow...you just solved a mystery I was clueless on...But no, Apple has a subclass of a UIView that uses those images. I won't go into details, but I had no idea where the images came from, I just knew that it worked. You've solved the mystery! So yes, if you change the Logo Flare photos in SpringBoard.app, (with WinterBoard or whatever you like), I don't see why it wouldn't work.

I guess I should have checked there first :P

Originally Posted by 2k1

Very nice tweak gonna try it out

Welcome to the site also

Thanks. I've been a member of ModMyi for quite a while, I just didn't want to confuse everyone by using my old username :P

You can. In all honesty, I have never even created a standard app. Ever. This is the first thing for iPhone I have ever finished. I made Beacon two days ago in less than 24 hours while I was sick. I barely even know Objective-C. I'm not even out of high school, never taken any programming or computer class. Everything you need to do things like this has some sort of documentation, somewhere online, no matter how hard you have to look to find it. (And MobileSubstrate info is definitely hard to find)

Very nice. Have been looking for this ever since it was introduced in iOS 5. Honestly never occurred to me to delve into the OS and try it myself, lol...

Thank you. Yeah, I was the same way, trying to find a tweak. Got into MobileSubstrate and decided what I wanted the finished product to be before I even started. The hardest part was finding where the heck the logo got activated from. Took the majority of the time, about 6 hours, but once I found that, it was a breeze.

is it just the apple or does it that shield with the lightning bolt come up as well as a transition? the apple is nice but i no desire to the arm and bolt. i wouldn't put it on the phone free if i have to see yet another logo after the apple.